Risk and the public acceptance of new technologies /
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. |
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| Description: | xvii, 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7251762 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Chapter 1. Risk and the Public Acceptance of New Technologies
- Chapter 2. Public Dialogue and the Scientific Citizen
- Chapter 3. On the Signature of New Technologies: Materiality, Sociality and Practical Reasoning
- Chapter 4. Public Acceptance of New Technologies in Food Products and Production
- Chapter 5. Making Sense of Uncertainty and Precaution: the Example of Mobile Telecommunications
- Chapter 6. Against the Stream: Moving Public Engagement on Nanotechnologies Upstream
- Chapter 7. Public Acceptability of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Transport and Associated Refuelling Infrastructures
- Chapter 8. Social Representations of Hydrogen Technologies: a Community-Owned Wind-Hydrogen Project
- Chapter 9. Stakeholders' and Publics' Perceptions of Hydrogen Energy Technologies
- Chapter 10. Technological Transitions and Public Engagement: Competing Visions of a Hydrogen Fuel Station
- Chapter 11. Towards a Sustainable Energy Future: Participatory Foresight and Appraisal as a Response to Managing Uncertainty and Contested Social Values
- Chapter 12. Conclusions
- Index
